Oscar Wilde on Trial - The Criminal Proceedings, From Arrest to Imprisonment

Assembling accounts from a variety of sources, including official and private letters, newspaper accounts, and previously published (but very incomplete) transcripts, Bristow provides the most accurate and authoritative account to date of the two trials of Oscar Wilde, which were pivotal in both legal and cultural history.

About the author

Joseph Bristow is a distinguished professor of English at UCLA. He is the coauthor of Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery.

Summary

The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of “gross indecency”

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Bristow, Bristow Joseph
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780300222722
• ISBN: 978-0-300-22272-2
• No. of pages: 672
• Series: Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference; Yale Law Library Legal History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / World, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Legal History, Gay & Lesbian studies, General and world history, Of specific Gay interest, Biography: writers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Relating to gay people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, HISTORY / LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics